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Judging by the flood of comments over Steven Sharif's impromptu Ask Me Anything post a week ago, it looks as though the hype is still very strong for Ashes of Creation. Intrepid Games' CEO returned two days ago for a more formal live AMA that fielded about an hour-and-a-half of burning questions from the community. As with most AMAs, the...

All we've heard about the upcoming reboot to multiplayer robo-suit shooter Anthem is that it's going to take some time to get done. Since then, the Twitter account of BioWare Austin studio director Christiean Dailey has been pretty active, sharing a number of concept art pieces of the game in progress. The artwork includes an extremely piratical pirate who looks...

While Wurm Online has been keeping busy with tackling technical issues and connection buildup, it's also been releasing updates to keep pace with the surge of new activity, which includes a new record of over 2,000 concurrent players. One of these updates is the launch of a new PvE world called Melody. This new map, accessible from the southern...

It would seem that the decision to launch on Steam was a good one for Star Wars The Old Republic as the 2011 MMORPG's community has generally seen a significant uptick in activity shortly after launching on the platform. A number of posts on the SWTOR subreddit chronicle the surge, with pictures of multiple instances that had to generate to...

I've heard of folks out there who intentionally pick crafts in MMOs because they're already experts at them - like the real-world politician who gets into EVE Online politics, or the lady who makes smithed gear for LARPers running a blacksmithy in a video game too. But I am not one of these people. It might be because most of my...

Lord of the Rings Online dominated headlines this week thanks to a week and a half of outages with feeble communication indeed. But the rest of the genre was busy putting on quite a show, as Star Wars The Old Republic surprise-launched on Steam and SEGA announced a sequel/update of sorts for Phantasy Star Online 2 coming next year....

There's certainly lots of quests to do in Elder Scrolls Blades already, but in the game's next update, there will be more of them. And they'll be repeatable. Which shouldn't be read as sarcasm, by the way, especially since grinding stuff is part of an MMO player's DNA anyway. These new Event Quests will not only be able to be...

The big conclusion of EVE Online's multipart Triglavian invasion is coming to a head with Quadrant 3: Zenith, which should hit soon. "Actions have consequences," said CCP. "Offering a wealth of new rewards and challenges, Zenith will encompass new live events, balance changes, brand-new content and huge visual updates that will unfold across the Quadrant amidst the roar of Triglavian...

With alpha 3.10 now in the PTU, fans of Star Citizen have a number of questions about the update. This past Friday's Star Citizen Live sought to address those questions with the help of game director Todd Papy and vehicle director John Crew. The video touched on a variety of 3.10-specific adjustments like how atmosphere changes the speed of aircraft...

So who remembers indie MMO Oath? In the spring of 2019, the game pulled in $67,000 on Kickstarter, in spite of concerns about the qualifications of the studio behind the game, Ready-Up. By the fall, we were covering a very public spat between Ready-Up and Ocean Spark Studios, which was apparently working on art for the game. Ocean Spark...